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JOB: Technical Writers needed, Boulder, CO

Financial Times Energy is looking for one full-time, in-house technical
writer and two freelance technical writers who fit the following
qualifications:

Full-time, on-site, mid-level technical writer needed. Will be responsible
for heading a team to write, edit, and maintain user guides, online help,
and training documentation for eight database and spatial software
products.
The ideal candidate for this position will have at least 2 years of
experience writing technical documentation, familiarity with Microsoft
Word
2000 and RoboHelp (WinHelp and RoboHTML), good organization and leadership
skills. This position will be based in our Boulder, CO, offices.

Seminars are nearly full, with registrants coming in from all over the
Eastern US ... and the UK! Please visithttp://www.travelthepath.com/xmlevent.shtml for details and a registration
form. Advance registration is required. Contact the event producer,
Bright
Path Solutions, at 919.547.0129 if you have any questions.

The two-day FrameMaker-to-Acrobat Advanced Techniques Seminar is
designed for FrameMaker and Acrobat users who want to create high-
quality, interactive PDF files. Attend and you will learn multitudes
of undocumented techniques, creative solutions, and tips for defining
Acrobat features within FrameMaker.

Idea Watch (www.ideawatch.org) is for
the technical writer or other professional who,
through ideas and intellectual
debate about them, wants to revolutionize
the products they create, the organizations
they are in, the software they write about,
and the lives they lead. Joining is free.
The meetings are free. Join today.

FOR MORE INFORMATION please see
www.ideawatch.org or contact
us at squarej -at- nationwide -dot- com

This seminar is designed for technical writers and editors, documentation
managers, and localization specialists. It will cover techniques and
approaches that improve the quality of the source and translated
documentation, reduce overall cost, and speed up time-to-market. The
seminar will have an interactive lecture format and will include writing
exercises that allow participants to practice and review their newly
learned skills. The $695 fee covers course materials, a copy of
"International Technical Communications: How to Export Information about
High Technology", and lunch.

Tis seminar is one of a seven-part series of seminars that The
Localization Institute is offering in March 2001 in Seattle, WA, and in
May 2001 in Chicago, IL. For complete seminar descriptions, agendas, and
registration information, please visit:http://www.localization-institute.org.

Take a minute to visit the new TECHWR-L archive, which
gives you complete access to TECHWR-L list messages--from
the first messages posted in March 1993 to the current
day's TECHWR-L postings. To date, that's more than 120,000
messages and approximately 700MB of data and technical
writing history at your fingertips!

We've added this new archive in response to site visitor
feedback, which indicated a need for a complete archive
that

TechSmith's SnagIt and Camtasia software give you the power to
capture and edit anything you see on your PC screen, plus your
narration, and present it to anyone, anywhere! You won't find better
tools for creating effective training, tutorials, demos and more in
industry standard AVI and streaming media formats.

As we enter the new millennium, communication is becoming increasingly
global. English-only Web sites are fast becoming a limiting factor in the
intellectual exchange of ideas and information. Indeed, the printed
document
is giving way to electronic formats, including non-textual and multimedia
representations of critical information. The host city for SIGDOC 2001 is
Sante Fe, New Mexico's state capital and the oldest capital city in the
United States. With its rich cultural heritage, Sante Fe provides a
fitting
setting to reflect on current issues and consider new challenges facing us
in 2001 and beyond.

SIGDOC is the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest
Group for Documentation, a professional organization dedicated to advanced
topics in documentation for and with computers. In addition to recognizing
this year's Rigo and Diana award recipients, the SIGDOC 2001 program will
include invited talks, panel discussions, paper presentations, posters and
demonstrations, and exciting tutorials. New this year are working
sessions,
which are extended discussions on a focused topic of interest to
conference
attendees. SIGDOC 2001 will provide an opportunity for the exchange of
information related to exciting new research and experience reports in
areas including (but not limited to):

* National language support in all forms of documentation
* Migrating to multilingual Web sites
* Cultural issues for international audiences
* Making documentation available in multiple formats
* Fundamental design principles that transcend the medium

Please submit a 500-word proposal describing your topic, objective, and
presentation format (paper, panel, poster or demonstration, tutorial, or
working session). Include a short biography with your proposal.
Submissions
may be in Adobe Acrobat PDF, HTML, Microsoft Word, Postscript
(interpretable by Ghostscript), or plain text format. Proposals must be
sent as an email attachment to stilley -at- cs -dot- ucr -dot- edu by 5pm Pacific time on
Friday, April 6, 2001. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by
May 22, 2001. Final versions of accepted papers are due July 13, 2001.
Proceedings will be published by the ACM. Selected papers will be
considered for publication in a special issue of the ACM Journal of
Computer Documentation.

The one-day workshop is for writers and editors who need
to create usable indexes for either printed or online
documents. Writers will learn to apply several productivity
tips and techniques in indexing technical documentation.

To request a brochure for any of these workshops, contact
LoriLathrop -at- compuserve -dot- com (http://www.indexingskills.com)
or call 704-531-0021.

"An index is as important to your documentation as your
documentation is to the product." (Lori Lathrop)

Lori Lathrop is a Past President of the American Society of
Indexers (ASI) and a Senior Member of the Society for
Technical Communication (STC). The second edition of her
book, An Indexers Guide to the Internet, was published by
Information Today Inc. in 1999, and she is currently writing
Indexing Skills for Technical Communicators, which is based
on the workshops she delivers to corporate clients throughout
North America.